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THE RING’s No. 1-rated middleweight Gennady Golovkin spoke to the boxing media about his May 16 fight with talented southpaw Willie Monroe, future showdowns with Miguel Cotto and Andre Ward, and why he thought the Peter Quillin-Andy Lee fight was more like a “sparring session.”

The HBO-televised David Lemieux-Gabriel Rosado middleweight fight on Saturday at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center isn’t a huge event but it should be a very good fight and could lead the winner to major showdowns against the stars of the 160-pound division.

Although his lawsuit is ongoing with promoter Dan Goossen, RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward said manager James Prince is working on his next fight, which he anticipates will happen in March or April.

Saturday’s win by Marcos Maidana to dethrone Adrien Broner as WBA welterweight titleholder drew 1.3 million viewers, Showtime’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sports, Stephen Espinoza, announced on Tuesday.

Shawn Porter on Marcos Maidana’s victory over Adrien Broner: “It didn’t go the way that I thought it would go. I actually thought that Broner would move more and use his quickness, but Maidana came in and got the job done.”

Richard Schaefer said Canelo Alvarez is paying for and may attend this weekend’s funeral for Javier Jauregui, the former IBF lightweight titleholder who died after suffereing a stroke on Wednesday. Jauregui was longtime member of Alvarez’s training team.

Most of the fighters involved in the Adrien Broner-Marcos Maidana, Leo Santa Cruz-Cesar Seda, Keith Thurman-Jesus Soto Karass and Beibut Shumenov-Tamas Kovacs matchups promised fireworks on Saturday at The Alamodome in San Antonio.